Giving Amazon the key to your house: unintended consequences
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/07/amazon-wants-a-key-to-your-house-i-did-it-i-regretted-it
The Luddite Blogger
Using technology to critique technology.
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Don't buy anyone an Echo
Why in-home listening devices are scary-bad. (Recommended by a pro-technology web site, even.)
https://gizmodo.com/dont-buy-anyone-an-echo-1820981732
https://gizmodo.com/dont-buy-anyone-an-echo-1820981732
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot—and Sooner Than You Think
A provocative article about the displacement of workers by intelligent machines appeared in Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/you-will-lose-your-job-to-a-robot-and-sooner-than-you-think/
Here's the cover photo:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/you-will-lose-your-job-to-a-robot-and-sooner-than-you-think/
Thursday, August 9, 2012
How much space would 8GB of 3.5" floppies require?
I bought a $7 flash drive recently that holds 8GB. It's tiny. Curious, I did some calculations. If my arithmetic is correct, that 8GB is equivalent to almost 6000 3.5 inch floppy drives, which would fill a cube 5ft on a side. So by dollar per GB it's about 1000 times cheaper. 3.5 inch disk sales peaked in 2002 at 14 million. So only ten years later, and we have 8GB flash drives.
These gentlemen are holding a string to approximate a 5 ft cube.
These gentlemen are holding a string to approximate a 5 ft cube.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Hyping classroom technology helps tech firms, not students
Who really benefits from putting high-tech gadgets in classrooms?
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120205,0,639053.column
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120205,0,639053.column
Friday, March 4, 2011
The Revolution will not be tweeted
Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Blink! has a fine essay on why
The Revolution will not be tweeted.
The Revolution will not be tweeted.
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